Method of making food products.



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ALEXANDER S. MCKENZIE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF MAKING FOOD PRODUCTS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER S. MCKENZIE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theMethod of Making Food Prodnets, of which the following is aspecification,-such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains'to make and use the same.

This invention relates to food products and it consists in an improvedmethod of making such products from bananas, and the object of theinvention is to provide an improved food product designed for use as abeverage like coffee, or a breakfast food, in which case it it used withmilk or cream and without cooking.

My improved product is produced from bananas and in order to produce abeverage like coffee, or product from which the beverage can be made, Itake ripe bananas or bananas which are at least partially ripe, andafter peeling or skinning, the bananas are divided into small parts orblocks of approximately the size of an ordinary coffee bean. Thisproduct is then roasted in an oven, and in a manner similar to that ofroastin the ordinary coffee bean, and until the divlded banana productassumes a dark brown color, after which the said product is ground toproduce a substance similar to that of ground coffee.

The method of producing the beverage for use after the banana producthas been roasted and ground in the manner described, is similar to thatof producing coffee from the ordinary coffee bean, except that myimproved product may be boiled for a longer or shorter time asparticular tastes may require.

By means of this product a beverage may be produced which, while beingpleasant to the taste is also highly beneficial as a food productwithout producing any deleterious efi'ects.

In order to produce a breakfast food, the

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 6, 1910. Serial No. 585,609.

Patented June 6,1911.

method of procedure is very similar to that hereinbefore described. Thebananas are first peeled and then divided into thin strips or slicespreferably transversely, after which the product thus produced isroasted in an oven until it assumes a light yellowish or brownish color,after which the roasted product is ground in the manner hereinbeforedescribed to produce a granulated or finely divided substance similar toother breakfast foods of this class, and which is eaten with milk orcream without cooking. This process produces a food product which ishighly beneficial as such, and which is delightful to the taste and hasno deleterious or objectionable effects.

In either of the above cases the ground product may be put in bottles,cans or jars and kept indefinitely or for any desired length of timewithout any change or form of character, as long as moisture is excludedtherefrom.

I am aware that it has been heretofore proposed to make 'a food productfrom bananas, but in this case the bananas were, first peeled and thendried until all the liquid substances or water was extracted therefrom,said drying being in a furnace or oven, heated to a predetermineddegree, after which the bananas were cut into small pieces and thenroasted in the manner of roasting coffee, after which, the product thusproduced was ground into flour. My invention difiers from the foregoing,however, in that there is no preliminary drying or roasting; but with myprocess bananas are peeled and then sliced or cut into small parts andthen roasted, the roasting serving both to extract the liquid substancesand to produce a dry roasted product which is then ground to the desiredfineness, the result bein entirely different from that above described.

Havin fully described my invention, what I c aim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The method herein described of producing food product from bananas, saidmethod consisting in first peeling ripe or partially ripe bananas, thendividing the peeled bananas to produce a more or less finely dividedproduct, then roasting the said prod- 5' not until it assumes a brownishcolor and Witnesses:

then grinding the said roasted product. C. E. MULREANY, In testimonythat I claim the foregoing B. M. RYERsoN.

5th day of October, 1910.

' ALEXANDER S. MCKENZIE.

as my invention 1' have signed my name in presence of the subscrlbmgwltnesses thls

